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Rhonda Brink

Lecturer

Department:     Business, Government & Society

Rhonda Brink specializes in estate and trust law and her practice addresses all aspects of family wealth management and disposition. Before Brink Bennett Pargaman Atkins & Sanchez PLLC, for many years, Rhonda was the supervising shareholder of the wealth transfer section of a major Austin law firm. She was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1974. Rhonda's education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Trinity University in 1971 and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1974.

Rhonda is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and was admitted as the first female Fellow in Texas of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ("ACTEC"). Rhonda has served as Past Chair and board member of the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Austin Bar Association, Past President of the Central Texas Estate Planning Council, and Past President of Austin Lawyers Care (the initial Travis County pro bono legal services referral organization). Rhonda is a frequent speaker at State Bar of Texas Professional Development programs and spoke regularly in the past at ALI-ABA Estate Planning and Administration Programs around the nation. Rhonda has twice served on the faculty of the University of Miami, Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, and served as Director of the 1999 State Bar of Texas Professional Development Program--Advanced Estate Planning Strategies Course in San Francisco. She has also presented at national ACTEC meetings on topics ranging from Non-Marital Status Issues in Estate Planning for Committed Couples (2012 Annual Meeting with co-speakers, Joshua S. Rubenstein, New York, NY, and Anne Wynne, Ikard Wynne, LLP, Austin, TX) and "Until Divorce Do Us Part" - the impact of divorce in estate planning (2014 Summer Meeting with co-speaker, Dennis Belcher, McGuire Woods, Richmond, Virginia).